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Federal Court Aborts Contraception Mandate

Obamacare’s individual mandate may have been upheld as a tax, but it looks like another mandate could be well on its way to creating a headache for the Obama administration. LifeNews reports that a Federal court has upheld a lawsuit against the controversial contraception mandate, following a lawsuit by Catholic-owned employer Hercules Industries:

A federal court issued an order Friday that halts enforcement of the Obama administration’s abortion pill mandate against a Colorado family-owned business while an Alliance Defending Freedom lawsuit challenging the mandate continues in court.

The mandate has generated massive opposition from pro-life groups because it forces employers, regardless of their religious or moral convictions, to provide insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization, and contraception under threat of heavy penalties.

Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys obtained the first-ever order against the mandate on behalf of Hercules Industries and the Catholic family that owns it. The administration opposed the order, arguing, contrary to the U.S. Constitution, that people of faith forfeit their religious liberty once they engage in business.[...]

In his order, Senior Judge John L. Kane of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado said that the government’s arguments “are countered, and indeed outweighed, by the public interest in the free exercise of religion. As the Tenth Circuit has noted, ‘there is a strong public interest in the free exercise of religion even where that interest may conflict with [another statutory scheme]….’ Accordingly, the public interest favors entry of an injunction in this case.”

This comes after two Federal District Courts had dismissed earlier lawsuits, citing lack of harm. With one Federal court willing to block the mandate, this decision all but forces the supporters of the mandate to take their case to an Appeals court – in this case, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Colorado. The Tenth Circuit’s 19 Judges skew slightly Republican, 12 of them being nominated by Republicans, and 7 being nominated by Democrats, though two nominations by President Obama are pending. If this case is upheld at the 10th Circuit, the Obama administration will almost certainly appeal the decision to the United States Supreme Court. And if the case is struck down by the 10th Circuit, the law’s opponents will definitely appeal the decision. Either way, in the event that the Court grants certioari, this case would raise yet another drag-out fight over the law.

H/T Weaselzippers

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  • Ron Staiger
    Posted on July 28, 2012 at 8:49am

    Women who seek abortion are so genetically flawed that our society and its gene pool are better off WITHOUT the genetic contamination bythose who would murder their own children! Abortion, like drug abuse, is a self-solving problem when its most vociferous defenders are allowed to eliminate themselves as well as their offspring in pursuit of their “rights”.
    There, a progressive solution to a progressive invention- let’s all sing the following lyrics to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic….’Margaret Sanger is a moldering in her grave, Margaret Sanger is a mouldering in her grave, Margaret Sanger is a mouldering in her grave,but her evil goes marching on’.

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    • Jenny Lind
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 10:11am

      That is a totally evil thing to say. You have no clue what desperation goes on in someones heart, nor do you have the right to judge them. I hate abortion with all my heart, but I am not, or are you, judge of this world. Only God gets to do that. Thank God you are not the judge, there is no love and mercy in your statement.

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    • macpappy
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 10:35am

      What an ignorant statement, until you figure out a way to stop man kind from having sex, the second most powerful instinct after that of survival, you have little to add to the conversation. The alternative to abortion is contraceptives, well, some religious folks of your elk would say that the act of taking a contraceptive is a form of abortion. Do you have any idea of what the world would look like without abortion, or contraception? Do you realize that not all the world is not Christian and do not share your belief in sky gods or the faux morals that the followers profess to the world?
      Read a book or two, go back to school, and leave that bible along and maybe, maybe, you can be enlightened a bit.
      I am not an abortion advocate, but to state that those that have one don’t deserve to live, is ignorant religious ideology at its worst.
      How about live and let live, and keep your archaic thoughts to yourself or stand to be chastised by the ones you spout this drivel to.

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    • GottaSaySomething
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 10:38am

      You really need to get on reality. Please seek help. Oh, maybe your health insurance doesn’t cover the mental health services you so obviously require. I presume you’re a tea ****** or close so it is nearly impossible to reason with you. Abortion is a legal right. A woman has a right to privacy and control over her own body. Unfortunately the tea baggers in this Country think that they can sit in judgment and issue commandments that they alone have the right to determine what a woman can and cannot do with her body. Having a health insurance policy doesn‘t violate any Church’s right to preach its dogma. That’s a joke. All they have to do is provide insurance. It’s up to the insured and the doctors to determine what services are needed. Jesus never shoved His beliefs down the throats of anyone…it seems logical that people who profess to follow Him would actually do so instead of being self-appointed Pharisees.

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    • Jenny Lind
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:12am

      Stager, mcpappy, gottaetc, I am a Tea Party member, and a Christian. It saddens me that women don’t reach out for help to the many non-profit organizations when they become pregnant. I am saddened there are not enough or those places, when there are tons of abortion clinics, but all of you saying “teabaggers” are not compassionate towards them means you do not know any of us. Legal abortion in this country has not made us a better place when without thinking we destroy a life. Life then becomes cheap. Opposing something that is wrong does not make us bad and it doesn’t mean we do not care about the women who are going through this.

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    • cmicko
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:20am

      @ JENNY LIND
      I am confident that I can “JUDGE” someone that murders their own child to be wrong and possibly evil! I do not have the right or power to condemn that person to Hell. God gave us intellect to make judgments. Your statement that you hate abortion, but you wouldn’t judge someone who had one, is disingenuous at best. Guilty conscience anyone?

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    • ChildOfTheKing
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:32am

      Oh my. These are very hurtful, especially to those women, like me, who have had an abortion. YES, I had an abortion when I was very young, before it was legal to do so and I HAVE REGRETTED IT EVER SINCE. Know this: those women who do have abortions, HAVE NO IDEA THAT IT IS CONTRARY TO GOD’S LAW. I didn’t. It was when I became a Christian that God opened my eyes WIDE OPEN.

      These women who are contemplating having an abortion, or who have already had one, NEED OUR MERCY, UNDERSTANDING, LOVE, AND MOST OF ALL, INFORMATION about God’s love for them and their lives and the life(s) they are carrying – NOT HATE.

      God forgave me of my abortion because I asked Him to – HE FORGAVE AND HEALED ME OF ALL MY SINS. Those women who do not know God, NEED THE SAME OPPORTUNITY AS I HAD. Someone needs to tell them about God’s love for them and their child.

      DO NOT HATE THESE WOMEN. DO NOT CALL THEM EVIL. They do not know any better.

      And, IF YOU ARE A TRUE FOLLOWER OF CHRIST, YOU WILL NEVER EVER EVER be hostile to them. YOU WILL SHOW THEM GOD’S LOVE THROUGH YOUR WORDS AND ACTION.

      If you cannot or will not understand that, then it is clear, YOU ARE NOT A TRUE FOLLOWER OF CHRIST and you actually work for the enemy. You’d better be on your knees asking for His forgiveness. There should never be malice towards non-Christian people – NEVER. Tell them the truth in love not animosity, revenge, or hatred.

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    • ChildOfTheKing
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:38am

      @ cmicko:
      Only Christians can judge one another, according to God Word and it must be done with witnesses.

      You do not know your Bible very well. It also says, JUDGE NOT LEST YE BE JUDGED and that goes for those who are NOT Christians. The woman who is having an abortion is clearly NOT A CHRISTIAN, so NO, WE CANNOT JUDGE HER because as Christians, WE ALREADY KNOW SHE IS A SINNER. IS JUDGING HER, THE WAY TO WIN HER TO CHRIST??????.

      We should love her and try to talk to her showing her Christ’s LOVE, but the ultimate decision is hers, JUST LIKE SALVATION IS. God does not force Himself ON ANYONE!

      Read your Bible before you make uneducated comments.

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    • CharlesMartel
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:46am

      If it is OK to kill the baby, then it should be OK to kill the father that caused the baby. Shouldn’t it?

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    • cyclejerk
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:48am

      Abortion is the single most self serving, disgusting act known to mankind. And the Pro Abortionists use a false argument… “a woman’s body”, “My body”, “A woman’s right to choose”… Bla flippen bla! These selfish disgusting people give know thought to the child, or the father. When Fathers have a say, things will change. And trust me, fathers WILL have a say soon. THAT”S MY BABY TOO! you selfish disgusting Ef Stick!

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    • Griffin06
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:50am

      Staiger, I’m as pro-life as they come, but your statement is dead wrong. An abortion leaves 2 casualties: 1 dead and 1 wounded. Many women seek abortion because they see no alternative. The best thing we can do, and what many of us ARE doing is to show them that there are alternatives. Carry the child to term and either raise it yourself, with the help of your family and community (which does NOT necessarily mean government assistance) or give the child up for adoption. The list for adopting infants carries a waiting period of about a year in most states. Give these children a chance for life, and if you aren’t capable of providing a stable, loving home, let someone who is do it.

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    • cmicko
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:04pm

      @ King…
      You have no idea what you are talking about. Your statement that any woman who has an abortion is not a Christian is asinine! Christians sin too. We make judgments everyday, life would be impossible without them. From the original translations of the Bible “judge not…” meant condemn not. I’ve forgotten more about the Bible than you will ever know. I do not condemn people, that alone belongs to God, but I can judge their actions. We need to make woman think BEFORE they have an abortion and not after the fact. Abortion is MURDER, no way around that. If coming up with some silly scenario is a way for you to deal with your past, God Bless You.

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    • vickigh
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:12pm

      GottaSaySomething writes:

      “Abortion is a legal right.”

      So you are saying that murder is OK as long as the victim matches some special set of conditions (laws) chosen by man?

      “A woman has a right to privacy and control over her own body. ”

      Along with the responsibility to keep our legs closed.

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    • cmicko
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 1:05pm

      @CHILDOFTHE…
      You have no idea what you are talking about. Your statement that any woman who has an abortion is not a Christian is asinine! Christians sin too. We make judgments everyday, life would be impossible without them. From the original translations of the Bible “judge not…” meant condemn not. I’ve forgotten more about the Bible than you will ever know. I do not condemn people, that alone belongs to God, but I can judge their actions. We need to make woman think BEFORE they have an abortion and not after the fact. Abortion is MURDER, no way around that. If coming up with some silly scenario is a way for you to deal with your past, God Bless You.

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    • Mitchina
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 1:05pm

      Really Gottosaysomething? I am offended that you use the title “tea party member” like it’s a dirty word. Judge people much, do you? I am one – and no, I don’t think everyone must live by my beliefs but I expect our free society to let me live mine. The gvt has NO RIGHT to make go against my religion: “people of faith forfeit their religious liberty once they engage in business..” SINCE EFIN WHEN was THAT ever thought of as a sane idea let alone legal? Just like the Mayor of Boston – gvt is abusing it’s power over the people every day – the more you let them get away with it, the worse things will get. It is NEVER about the freedom and individual rights of our citizens to this gvt, NEVER! It’s about power, control and money. When will you efin morons figure this out. Religious freedom, gay rights, right to life or choice… it is never really about the issues that WE are wanting – and that is what they rely on…. YOUR STUPIDITY to think it is, while they use to to gain more and more control over us, taking more and more freedom from us in the false pursuit of giving us freedom. And you e’fed up idiots are buying it hook like and sinker. Look at the right hand while the left hand is SCREWING WITH YOUR LIFE! Dummies…. you‘re all a bunch of dummies if you don’t understand that basic political instinct of survival and corruption and STOP distracting yourself with the semantics of the argument that THE GVT creates just to distract you.

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    • Wayner
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 1:28pm

      “Be not deceived, God is not mocked. If a man sews corruption, he shall reap corruption” Keep philosophizing about about how humane and all knowing you are about what life and morality are all about. Keep mocking God’s Word… and you are going to reap your just desserts.. whether it be a scruciating death from aids or hemmoraging from a botched abortion… Look around you and see where we are… God is about fed up..

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    • Hora
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 1:32pm

      That are to simple,a basic commander in a word,“you will not kill”no eception of any kind,include a mother life in danger.“you will NOT kill” is a law and not accept nothing more.Woman rigth?what rigth?
      enjoy sex?fine,but not get pregnant or you will have a baby,like or not.Ig any judge said is OK kill,is must take out from a court like take out his license.Like any Cop shoot another person,simple,no excuse,charge with murder,self defence is not significate kill another,that is stop another,but not kill,there are many differents ways.

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    • Mizurax
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 1:40pm

      How did this turn into a discussion about abortion? The article is about contraception. Even if you believe that both abortion and contraception are wrong, they are in no way the same thing.

      If you don’t like contraception, don’t use it. But for those of you that don’t believe contraception is morally wrong, don’t tell me I have to pay for other people to use it. If I choose to use contraception (and my wife does) I’ll pay for it myself. I shouldn‘t expect others to pick up part of the tab if they themselves don’t use it.

      If you think others need to pay your bills for you, you’re useless. End of story. Now, obviously there are some people who are down on their luck and need help. People need food to survive. People need shelter. People need clothing. We should have some sort of safety nets, both from government and our private communities, to help these people. (However, if you’re in need of this assistance from birth until death, you are, again, useless.) But contraception is not a necessity. Don‘t tell me I need to help those that can’t afford it. That is absolute ridiculousness. Be responsible for yourself.

      If you believe that contraception is something that everyone in the country should share the bill for, you’re a moron in my opinion. According to that logic, we should all share in the cost of providing cars to everyone that wants one. Couches for everyone that wants one. Pets for everyone that wants one. Morons…

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    • Mizurax
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 1:45pm

      Hora,

      I don‘t know anyone that doesn’t enjoy sex. But that doesn’t mean I have to cover your costs of doing it. If you have sex, and you don’t want to have a baby, then buy your own condoms or birth control. Or learn to pull out. But don‘t tell me it’s my responsibility to pay for you to have sex.

      I like playing video games. Is it your responsibility to make sure I own and XBOX, or to provide me with games to play on that XBOX?

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    • zipzap
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 1:46pm

      @JennyLInd – I also can’t imagine the desperation that goes on the mind of someone deciding whether or not to murder their brother, but somehow God asks us to not only judge, but enforce His simple commandment, “thou shalt not murder.” We can paint our whole world in grey and thereby escape accountability, but only for a time. Why should we rationalize something so horrific as the violent taking of a child’s life?

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    • toto
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 1:49pm

      There is some truth in everyones comments. The anger toward people that willfully kill their own babies is justified. However educating them and loving them is constructive and helpful. To say that children would be much better off not having women who abort as mothers seems like a no brainer, unless the women come to an understanding of the enormity of killing a baby safely in the womb as the epitome of selfishness, and not the selfless love that is the hallmark of motherhood. Disagree with the Catholics about birth control, BUT they should be free to adhere to their religious faith without government interference. The real problem is that the morals of society, religious or not, are so low that you never even hear the word promiscuity anymore and a prostitute is different from others only in that he/she gets paid for he/her services. A huge number of men are more interested and dedicated to avoiding their obligations to support their children than they are in raising them to be happy healthy adults. Society is damaged, families are in name only with the names constantly changing, and children are being forced into lives of chaos, instability, with the poorest excuses for parents ever. Abortion is just a symptom of the overall debasement and crudeness of life today. Discussion of sexual self control for a greater long term purpose has gone the way of the dodo bird.

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    • Leader1776
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 2:04pm

      @Jenny Lind
      There is no stigma attached to pregnancy out of wedlock. There are too many abortions to say they are all fearful and confused. There are overlapping aid programs for unwed mothers. There are long waiting lines to adopt. The remaining question then becomes: what could POSSIBLY be going through a women’s mind that would end the life rather than giving life. Answer ……… the cheapening of life in that women’s mind and the thought that they might not look good on the beach pregnant.

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    • testandverify
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 2:41pm

      While I can’t comment on the PC nature of the comment. The reducing of the gene pool is a correct statement since it does without a doubt perform it by eliminating progeny from the face of the earth.

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    • ezekiel22
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 5:50pm

      Ron the best part of you wasn’t conceived.

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    • Rex Whitmer
      Posted on July 29, 2012 at 2:43am

      Ron, Humanity has somehow survived in spite of persons like child killers. In Bibical times people sacrificed their children to Baal. Today in Carthage you can still find cemetaries full of children killed in this manner. What manner of animal kills its own children whether it is because they are inconvenient or because they believe they will find favor in a god’s eye for the sacrifice. Today there are many, many different ways to avoid pregnancy, but that is apparently too, too difficult. Sex was not instituted into humanity strictly for personal pleasure, but for the continuation of the species. It necessitates responsibility which is an attribute of being human. Those whom claim defiance of this responsibility should find it more convenient to sterilize themselves to advoid it!

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    • Armed Patriot
      Posted on July 29, 2012 at 11:19am

      God commanded “Thou shall not murder”.

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  • noleftturn
    Posted on July 28, 2012 at 8:07am

    …. so owning a business forfiets your freedom of religion? So by extension, do you forfeit freedom of speech, right to bear arms, freedom to assemble….. right to vote for someone other than Obama?

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    • MrObvious
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 10:03am

      As long as its enforced by an “indirect” tax.
      The constitution was originally written to be clearly understood.
      It takes some massive mental/legal gymnastics to call a tax directly applied against people “indirect”.
      The Chief Justice has done serious harm to the constitution he swore an oath to defend.
      We now need to not only repeal the 16th Amendment but re-clarify the meaning of the word “indirect”.
      http://www.16thAmendment.org

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    • Mr. H.
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:14am

      While Obama is President, owning a business that does not forfeit all of its profits to the Federal Treasury is a crime punishable by taking away your rights and freedom. Note that he has successfully closed 200,000 small business, and is spending a trillion dollars a year more than taxes bring in. Obama has been steeped in Marxism all his life, and fervently believes in it as the only way to run a country. His goal was to take down our country to the level of a third world dictatorship. He has already spent us into so much debt that our income can only pay the interest.

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    • WyoSagebrush
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:03pm

      Add to that the freedom from warrant-less searches and forced lodging of government troops.

      It is amazing that the thugs in Obama’s regime would fight for convicted felons right to vote, and deny any rights to legitimate businessmen.

      If Obama does manage to get re-elected, this country is over as it was founded. If he loses his bid for another term, there will be a long and bitter struggle to return us to the vision of the founders.

      May God grant us mercy and strength in the fight!

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  • Oldphoto678
    Posted on July 28, 2012 at 6:56am

    Well, in a couple years none of this will matter because we will have single payer, and then employers won’t have to worrie about it.

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    • term limits for congress
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 10:10am

      Exactly. If Barry wins in November, we’ll have Single Payer by 2015.

      If Romney wins in November, we’ll have Single Payer by 2015.

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    • ChildOfTheKing
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:40am

      Romney says HE WILL REPEAL OBAMACARE, OVER AND OVER AGAIN. If he does not, HE WILL ALSO BE A 1-TERM PRESIDENT or HE WILL BE IMPEACHED.

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    • vickigh
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:31pm

      Childoftheking writes:
      “Romney says HE WILL REPEAL OBAMACARE,”

      Romney will not be dictator either. He has not the power to repeal laws. The best he can hope for is Congress repealing the law and he might sign it. Focus on Congress. Particularly the Senate.

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    • 762x51
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 3:31pm

      Doesn’t matter to me. I will not comply with this or any other Obama Law. Laws made by criminals to further their own power have no meaning to me, they are without force or affect. I will continue to live as an American and if necessary, die as an American, fighting for freedom against this rogue government so that my children can live free just as my forefathers died so that I could live free.

      No real American can do less and live with honor.

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on July 28, 2012 at 6:06am

    Come on now. Those poor women employed by religious companies or people need the free contraception as they. no doubt, can control themselves no more than an alley cat in heat; and if a pregnancy occurs, those poor women need the insurance so they can happily butcher their baby, and quickly get back to gapping’ their thighs. Hey, it’s their right to be an easy tramp.

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    • ezekiel22
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 5:48pm

      You sound like a tool. So it is my opinion that when someone told you to go commit an act os self procreation upon yourself you are what you came up with. You apparently do not have any idea of the subject that you speak nor the people involved. I may not support abortion but you sir would be the poster child of such laws and rights.
      I hope like all get out that you do not get as involved as I have been in the past with this as your pea sized brain would not stand the strain and wxplode.

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on July 28, 2012 at 3:11am

    So many memories of the Today sponge and Elaine’s stockpile of them. There was also Elaine’s judgement on whether or not a potential partner was “worth” wasting a Today sponge on. Then there was “George” who believed that he should get free sponges because he was a friend of both Jerry and Elaine.

    Back then, I actually used these sponges for birth control. I was a married woman, unready for another child. I had medical problems taking birth control pills, and the “sponge” worked for me. I never understood why it was banned in the first place. Birth control pills caused unwanted physical reactions in me. The sponge was the best contraceptive for me -yet it was taken away. I know that it’s back, but I no longer need it.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 4:53am

      Obama is just doing his job. What is his job? you ask. His job is the wreck the United States of America to the point that we won’t care if the Muslim Brotherhood takes over. We won’t care who is calling the shots as long as we have a roof over our heads and food on the table. This is coming down the the end times stuff, folks. I don‘t know if ’this is it” but it sure has all the smells and sounds of ‘it’.
      Obama has been a raging success for Satan. That‘s why he’s so arrogant.
      He knows he’s done his job.
      He knows he and his thug minions (Jarrett/Axelrod even that odd duck Emanuel in Chicago) all of them, Sunstein…all of them have been guided by Wright and Ayers to this point. Don‘t you think it’s clever how that twerp Emanuel has waltzed Farrakhan into Chicago to ‘take over Security’ ? Uh huh.

      SO, for anyone trying to argue apples and apples ,or oranges and oranges or even apples and oranges forghetaboutit….this is Apples and Poison. His goal has nothing to do with successful American or Americans. Once people get that clear in their heads then we can make some progress.
      And…we either progress or die because MBH will insist that we follow Satan or die. FOCUS ON GOD but understand what is going on here. Hear? :) Glenn’s RESTORING LOVE has been wonderful, can’t wait until Sat. night!! I’m so proud of the people who actually were able to go there!!

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    • historyguy48
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 7:01am

      Comrade Patty Henry the only problem is that America isn’t mentioned in Revelations whatsoever! In neither the Islam version, or the Christian version. There will probably be a war, this time Nimrod will punish mankind severely. Try to find references to Nimrod in your computer. Not the mythical one, the real one!
      You can’t. they were scrubbed!
      The only data we have on Nimrod was a single page released by mistake in a 2008 release under the truth of information laws which were more than 200,000 pages long. That page was removed within three days of the information being released to the public.
      There is a fascinating e-book out, written by Nathan Hale titled Death of Civilization; the Apocalypse Begins it is a look at what may be coming, especially if you doubt that GB’s religious crusade will stop the godless from what they are doing.

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    • GrayPanther
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 10:13am

      But then Diane, you are a thinking woman. That puts you head and shoulders above an emotional tramp who takes no responsibility beyond a “good time”. Any woman who is not raped knows how to prevent conception before the action starts. Abortion is an ignorant result of a lack of thinking.

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    • macpappy
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 10:17am

      Who in the hell is Elaine, George, and Jerry?

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    • GottaSaySomething
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 10:43am

      The commentators who assert, without any factual foundation, that President Obama is a muslim and trying to allow the Muslim Brotherhood to infiltrate our government, need some serious help from mental health professionals. Just reading the comments, I can feel the UNCHRISTIAN rage, hatred, bigotry, paranoia, etc. I doubt that Jesus is looking down and thinking that these commentators are “ood and faithful servants.” They do more harm to our society than anything else. They raise their children teaching them hatred, rage, bigotry, etc. They seem to me to be the bitter roots that grow up to defile many.

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    • troymac20
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 10:56am

      @MACPAPPY

      Characters on Seinfeld. They had a whole episode about the sponge.

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    • CharlesMartel
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:19pm

      There is far more evidence that Obama is a Marxist that that he is a Muslim.

      Marxists love it when you call Obama a Muslim, because it diverts attention from his Marxist actions and gives them the opportunity to call his opponents religious bigots, as though Marxist really care about freedom of religion. It makes a wonderful distraction for them.

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  • MacJedi
    Posted on July 28, 2012 at 2:18am

    Meanwhile, the government bureaucrats are spending $Billions on cranking out mountainous volumes of poisonous requirements and regulations. The design of the Obamacare monstrosity is not to deliver Healthcare, but to further ‘socialize’ (enslave) a dumbed down population that is increasingly unable to think or care for itself. AND, just wait till you find out what this ‘FREE’ healthcare plan is going to cost YOU AND ME!

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    • jblovesAmerica
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 9:54am

      I have a message for those Congress folks who voted for ObamaCare without reading and understanding what its going to do to healthcare in America.
      YOU will be held accountable.

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on July 28, 2012 at 2:09am

    It’s a big deal to make ANY changes to the Constitution of the United States of America. Right now, we have Freedom of Religion. No where, no how, is it written that if you “start a business and hire employees, you lose your Constitutional RIGHT to your unfettered practice/belief of/in your religion. If your religion teaches that abortion is the murder of a potential human being – you have a Constitutional RIGHT to believe that. No one can force you to provide abortion services for those in your employ. It may take an extra step in the hiring process, where the potential hire is told – this Company DOES NOT support abortion because of their religious beliefs. If you don‘t agree with our Company’s policy, don’t apply to work here. By signing this notice, you acknowledge that you know this Company’s policy on abortion.

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    • Puddle Duck
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 2:30am

      Right you are Diane….according to the WH Admin argument if an Amish farmer decides he wants to sell his bounty to the public and hires staff to sell it his own cultural beliefs would be null and void with regards to health insurnance coverage for employees ? What if all his employees are Amish ? By the same token if an Islamic meat shop were to open would they be forced to offer pork since the act of going into business should negate his religious convictions therfor if a customer wants pork they should be able to buy it (according to the boobs in the WH) ? It’s a patently ridiculous argument to make and yet the Obama Admin is making all kinds of patently ridculous arguments the past 4 years. It certainly has been bizzaro world the last half dozen years. The Carter Admin may have been inept but they weren’t anywhere near the level of this bunch when it comes to lunacy.

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    • brutu105
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 8:42am

      Folks the WORD OF GOD TEACHES, “Fret not thyself when EVIL MEN CARRY OUT THEIR SCHEMES.” Search it out in your concordance. If I did not believe in the LORD JESUS CHRIST AND HIS MERCY—-I COULD LIVE IN THIS PRESENT EVIL WORLD–But I know the Lord is in control and knows all the evil people and all the good people and he stated, “Upon this ROCK (Christ Jesus), I will build my church and the GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT”. He also says, “be not afraid, I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD”. So look up, repent up, pray up—and look for HIS SOON CALLING OUT THE CHURCH.
      no

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    • macpappy
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 10:24am

      @brutu105
      You better get yourself and all your peeps to the polls and vote these idiots out of office, because God, or Jesus is not going to save you. Your belief in the sky gods is your igonrant way of ignoring all that is bad as evil, and blame the sky gods for your misfortune, and pray for deliverence. There is a reason that the religious are considered the meek of the world. Believe in yourself and the choices you make are your own.

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    • DIR
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 3:54pm

      @MACRAPPY: Your belief in the sky gods is your igonrant way of ignoring all that is bad as evil, and blame the sky gods for your misfortune, and pray for deliverence.

      Your left leaning condescension and intolerance is showing!

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  • Git-R-Done
    Posted on July 28, 2012 at 1:26am

    This is good news.

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    • Leopold
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 2:25am

      It is good news if the press covers it.

      If people find out Obama is directly attacking the people and their religious freedom over abortifacts and there is no outcry, we are done. Unless he will not be re-elected.

      …..The administration opposed the order, arguing, contrary to the U.S. Constitution, that people of faith forfeit their religious liberty once they engage in business.[.....]…What bs this is.

      This sentence is like a fist in the stomach.

      People forfeit their liberty if one has a business. Which they didn’t built in the first place. According to Obama.

      But we all know that Obama supports business, right?

      If Romney is not going to pick this up and fight for the American people he does not deserve to become president.

      Will he be a champion for the people and their freedom?

      Who would have thought what kind of evil man Obama turned out to be.
      He has no problem to have Mexicans killed to further his agenda of gun control.
      He has no problem to have abortion surviving babies killed. After all the baby was supposed to die in the first place.

      There is no doubt anymore that he hates this country and wants to destroy it.

      And people who will continue with their denial over who Obama really is will carry a heavy burden for the rest of their lives.

      This man, Obama needs to go.

      People made all kinds of excuses for Hitler. Nobody was willing to look at who he really was.

      Do not think Obama has any scrupples to implement his agenda

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  • Its Gonna Getcha
    Posted on July 28, 2012 at 1:23am

    Obama is such an inconsiderate human being. Now millions going to his repeated appeals?

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 2:15am

      And yet he cannot bring himself to admit that it is a) bad law, and b) vastly unpopular with almost two thirds of voters.

      That, at least, is the one upside to this whole boondoggle. It is another nail in the re-election coffin.

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  • christos
    Posted on July 28, 2012 at 1:21am

    This is Great News,Prayer answered.People can not be forced to buy anything,it’s Unconstitutional.

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  • notforreal
    Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:42am

    And it will end up at the Supreme Court where Justice Roberts will side with the liberals. Score: 5-4 Mandate stands. Unfortunately!

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  • smitty1007
    Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:11am

    “The administration opposed the order, arguing, contrary to the U.S. Constitution, that people of faith forfeit their religious liberty once they engage in business.”
    Even their argument states that it is contrary to the Constitution!

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    • cyclejerk
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:59am

      God help these justices. I’m afraid some one will do something unthinkable… I pray not.

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  • crusaderx9
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:47pm

    All Christians must be prepared to defend religious liberty/freedom NOW. If evil prevails through obama’s progressive agenda there will be social, cultural, and economic devastation – the impacts of which will be more severe than imagined. The harm has already started. The earth will yet again fall into darkness as the once spectacular light of American Liberty is defeated and extinguished by a heavy handed centralized government led by a corrupt ruling class…

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:15am

      Amen, and the matter is, we see that the administration is more than willing to ignore any matters of a court case that go against them. He will order this matter enforced via backdoor prosecution and the use of the IRS at all levels for intimidation purposes to make examples of his opponents.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:41am

      Nice to see some judges with backbones, after all the spineless maneuvers they performed for Oblameus, probably under fire or heavy penalty.

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    • Puddle Duck
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 2:19am

      The audacity and arrogance of this Admin is boundless and breathtaking. I’ve never witnessed a more blantantly corrupt WH Admin in my lifetime. The sheer amount of violations contrary to the Constituion coming from this regime ,seemingly on an almost weekly basis, lends creedence to the argument that the current regime are indeed practicing the Cloward & Piven plan to a T.

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  • sbenard
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:24pm

    It’s not just about freedom of conscience, either. If the government can compel you to give up your religious liberty in subjection to some government mandate, there is NO freedom or rights left. What other rights would they then be able to deny? Freedom of speech? The right of habeas corpus? The right to due process? Freedom literally hangs in the balance!

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    • phrogdriver
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:42pm

      If Obama gets a second term, I expect we will all be surprised to learn that having a firearm in your home is a “healthcare concern” which will be regulated under Obamacare. (Say, a $10,000 insurance bond for each firearm, perhaps?)

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    • K.D.
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:59pm

      We need to stress to everyone that All faiths are at risk. I am Wiccan, and as the least of those noted, my beliefs will be blotted out by Obama. This is a war on all religion. All of us are humans and should be treated as such but to demean the the God/Godess given rights of any of us is to take away our freedom. As of this year I stand with the Catholics and on this day of service I have given to a local food pantry. We all need to stand for faith

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:00am

      Both of you are correct. The answer is, if he gets a second term (obviously through corruption), then our duty is to not comply. That’s as plain as I can say it without being visited by SS men (and those initials are accurate, do the math).

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  • spirited
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:15pm

    “The administration opposed the order, arguing, contrary to the U.S. Constitution, that people of faith forfeit their religious liberty once they engage in business.[...]“-Blaze

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~{[:^O “forfeit their religious liberty” ?

    “In his order, Senior Judge John L. Kane of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado said that the government’s arguments “are countered, and indeed outweighed, by the public interest in the free exercise of religion.”

    >~>Business owners should join forces and file joint petitions for the free exercise of religion.

    The Obamas & ALL other elected officials of like mind need to GO…..& get real jobs!

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    • QuincySmith
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:26am

      Judge John L. Kane does not lean right. A Carter appointee, he spent time in the peace corps (or corpse). This cannot be good news for the would-be ‘anointed one’ oblama.

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  • DagneyT
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:13pm

    When this court decision was announced at the “Under God Indivisible” event in Dallas this afternoon, 6,000 people rose up and cheered!

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    • drkmagneto
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:38pm

      Awesome!!!! About time the good guys win one!

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 5:56am

      We won’t win anything unless we take the Senate and the White House. We have all learned that we can’t rely on the courts to keep us free, it’s up to us.

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  • Max jones
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:05pm

    WE need the right to the free exercise of freedom, period.

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  • The Gooch
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:04pm

    As I’ve said before, Obama and Co. could have done away with some 2,000 pages of legalese and stated their intention: We will rule by fiat and make health care policy as we see fit.
    This mandate wasn’t about any specific provision in the original bill or law. It exemplefies how authoritarians (such as Kathleen Sebelius) and bureaucratic govt. agencies such as the EPA and HHS operate: “Your rights and responsibities are what we say they are. Thanks for the convenient Pandora’s Box.”
    I’ve seen this all too often at the state level here in WV when it comes to dealing with bureaucrats: Shut up and do as your told… we own you.

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:59pm

    Chalk one up for us in Colorado! The poser-in-chief shall not prevail.

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  • snufy
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:54pm

    I do hope you morons who voted for Obama just because he is 1/2 black, Democrat or liberal are ashamed of yourselves. In November, vote for someone else to prove you’re not stupid. No one can tell me even who he is. He has spent over 3 million dollars in lawyer fees hiding his records. He is rabidly anti-gun. He is on record for murdering babies both in the womb and soon after birth. He is evil personified.

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    • phrogdriver
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:14pm

      If they were stupid enough to vote for him in the first place, do you really think they are smart enough to realize how stupid they were to vote for him in the first place?

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    • cemerius
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:26pm

      I know a couple liberals that rather than talk politics to me any more have decided NOT to vote at ALL this election……oh yes Obama has lost the “faithful”……..the New World Order will be putting all their “influences” onto Romney WE the People need to hold him accountable too!!!

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    • phrogdriver
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:56pm

      @cemerius – sadly the fate of the greatest country in human history is in the hands of a man who doesn’t have a clue why the is the greatest country in human history.

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  • jwt
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:48pm

    It does not matter what the court decides. God rules and if he wants a child to be born, it will happen no matter what the goverment decides even if a man and women are to old to have a child

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:50am

      So, if a baby is aborted it is God’s will? Baloney.

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  • Conservative New Yorker
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:47pm

    “The administration opposed the order, arguing, contrary to the U.S. Constitution, that people of faith forfeit their religious liberty once they engage in business.[...]

    What the…???

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    • RebelPatriot
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:02am

      That makes no sense, wasn’t it last year that the SCOTUS ruled that corporations enjoyed the same rights as WE the PEOPLE?

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    • NancyBee
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:22am

      I was shocked at their defense!!! These people are desperately dangerous.

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:42pm

    since when does entering into a business negate constitutional religious freedom?????

    if you dont understand the endgame that this administration is striving for you have mental issues

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  • chips1
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:40pm

    Obama‘s thinks that if you don’t agree to kill babies, then he will have you killed. He does have a HIT list.

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  • GhostOfJefferson
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:35pm

    The mandate is not a tax. Get real. SCOTUS is not the ultimate authority on the Constitution, and nothing in the Constitution gives them ultimate power to determine what is Constitutional, as that itself would violate separation of powers by making SCOTUS the sole legislating body.

    That said, this may hold or not, it doesn’t matter, we need to repeal the Marxist piece of sh*t legislation ASAP.

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    • Dejavu
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:47pm

      Agreed.

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    • phrogdriver
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:56pm

      It’s actually worse than “it’s not a tax”.

      The law USED to be that a tax was unconstitutional if it 1) was not reasonably calculated to generate revenue and 2) a penalty disguised as a tax. (This is why “drug taxes” were thrown out.)

      In Obamacare, the penalty was not calculated to generate revenue, it was calculated to force people to buy health insurance and it was not a pentlaty disguised as a tax, if was a penalty that was called a penalty.

      Roberts has overturned 70 years of restraint on the power of the Federal gov’t and given them unlimited power. Repealing Obamacare will make no difference if democrats ever get control of gov’t again because the damage Roberts has done is catastrophic.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:53pm

      Good job ghost – you are on the right track. As Judge Napolitano once said…“It was never the intent of the founders to have 9 government lawyers with lifetime tenure deciding the limits of government power”.

      Here is a good constitutional perspective on the Obamacare ruling….
      http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/story/2012-07-02/Rand-Paul-ObamaCare-Roberts/55989650/1

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:58pm

      @Prhrog

      Fortunately, Roberts is not the final arbiter of justice. We are not bound by unconstitutional law. The law IS unconstitutional, even a 5th grade civics student could tell us that. We must dissent, we must not comply.

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    • phrogdriver
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:29am

      ghost, in some ways you are correct. The Supreme Court took the authority to interpret the Constitution in Marbury v. Madison sometime around 1802. (Roberts basically abdicated that by claiming it was not timentheir job to undo the will the the electorate – which is really incomprehensible giggerish given the Marbury case has been the bedrock of SCOTUS authority for over 200 years.

      But the whole “I will not comply” think is a little hard to implement. I‘m not going to give up my health insurance to prove a point and I don’t know many people who will.

      If we really want this law overturned, we need to pass a law that anyone who does not possess a photo ID will be “taxed”. Let the democrats and ACLU argue the same issue – and they will win because the leftists on the bench are nothing but ideologes. If not, we at least get free elections out of the deal.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:41am

      You don’t have to “give up” anything, simply don’t report it to the IRS. In the new fresh line that requests your insurance provider/number, fill in nothing.

      That‘s what I’m going to do.

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